732 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 519]

CHAPTER 519.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Chapter 575, Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1908, entitled "An
Act to repeal and re-enact sections 2 and 12, of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland, Session 1902, Chapter
357, entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Kent and Cecil
Light, Power and Railway Company.' "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 575 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland, Session of 1908, entitled "An Act to repeal and
re-enact with amendments section 2 and section 12 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1902, Chap-
ter 357, entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Kent and Cecil
Light, Power and Railway Company,' " be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to
read as follows:

SEC. 2. That the object and purpose of this company shall
be to provide, improve communication from that part of Kent
county, Maryland, bordering on the Chesapeake Bay, by or
elsewhere by the way of Chestertown, Kent county, Maryland,
and to continue through Kent county to Cecil county, Mary-
land, and through Cecil county to the Delaware line, or also
through Cecil county to the Pennsylvania line, or some point
on the Susquehanna River.

SEC. 12. That said company is authorized and empowered
to manufacture, furnish, sell and use steam, electricity, electric
power and lights in Kent and Cecil Counties of this State
and to manufacture, sell or otherwise deal in electricity and
electrical machinery and supplies, and to use all necessary
means to effect the objects of this incorporation; to establish
lines of electric railway conductors and conduits in Kent and
Cecil counties, and to use therefor any of the public roads,
streets, alleys or highways in Kent and Cecil counties; pro-
vided, the consent of the proper authorities having jurisdiction
over said public roads, streets, alleys or highways may first be
obtained; and for the purpose of obtaining rights of way,
where said company can not agree with the owner, or where
the owner is feme covert, under age, non compos mentis, or
under any other legal disability, said company may proceed
to condemn and acquire the use thereof in the manner pro-
vided in Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws; and
the said company is further authorized to construct, lay, erect
and operate in Kent and Cecil counties lines of wires, tubes,